means “inner struggle”. In those core texts of Islam having
chapters devoted to jihad, there is not one entry on the
topic which is to do with inner struggle, as every single
entry is about jihad as violence.^63 Yet as the above
examples show, as late as 2014, government departments
and even those testifying before Parliament were claiming
that jihad meant “inner struggle”. The idea that jihad is
“inner struggle” is another form of the lie “Islam is a
religion of peace”. There is so much discussion of jihad
(as warfare) in the core texts of Islam, that the deceivers
tried to frame the mind of anyone who should start to
look at the core texts of Islam. The terrorists were using the
word “jihad” as it had always been used in Islam, and a
fictional secondary meaning was conjured up to deceive the
public in the West. The thirteen volume Dictionary of the
Middle Ages, one of the world’s two greatest reference
works on that historical period, went so far as to say that
“holy war” was so fundamental to Islam that it could even
be considered one of the five “pillars of Islam”.^64
You will see from the highlighted verses of our Koran
that this “struggle” or “striving” (a shortening for the
allusive phrase “striving in the cause of Allah”), entails
using any means necessary to enforce Islam on non-
Muslims.^65 Here is what one of the mainstream experts on
Islam had to say just a couple of years prior to 2001:
The Arabic word jihad [...] means to strive,
to exert oneself, to struggle. [...] The origin
of the concept of jihad goes back to the
wars fought by the Prophet Mohammed and